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The year started well for the U.S. market of technology initial public offerings. Unicorns like Snap and Cloudera went public with a pop. Stock indexes soared. Now, though, tech bankers and investors say that 2017 won’t be the boom year they expected it to be. But they are still hopeful things ...

Last week, HotelTonight enjoyed something that had started to seem like a faint memory in Silicon Valley: an up round. The hotel booking site raised $37 million at a valuation of $400 million, up from about $300 million. The funding came not long after a few other bigger startups raised money at ...

Snapchat has been talking to investment bankers about filing for an IPO towards the end of this year or early in 2017, according to people the company has spoken to. That could put the company on track for a public offering next year, coming out ahead of other hotly anticipated private tech ...

Zenefits’ decision to slash its valuation by more than half has been portrayed as hurting VCs who invested early much more than recent investors and employees. But a closer look at the details suggests that series A investors will still be sitting on a paper return of 1,800% after the ...

The video streaming service Vessel began its life as a place where people could pay $3 a month to watch content from YouTubers several days before it went up on YouTube. Now the site is talking to its programming partners about changing some of the deals to include production of original ...